Ain Soph - Prima dell'aurora #2004

Prima dell'aurora is a word-play, meaning "before the dawn", but also referring to the title of Ain Soph's famous CD ("aurora" is Italian for dawn). This beautiful LP presents for the first time a selection of the most representative songs from that classic release in their original, raw and furious versions.
Think of IGGY & STOOGES' Raw power, which was listened in its real brutal sound only more than 20 years after the original issue. Ain Soph's music was never softened and smothered by David Bowie's production, that's understood, but anyway the demo versions featured on this vinyl sound quite different from the "official" ones on the CD.
On side A, experience the stalking Morriconian sound of Le depart, sing along the drunk cantina-ballads White guard and Ramayana, listen to the desolation of Uomini perduti and Tempi duri.
On side B, it's time to stomp at the thrashing rhythm of Pistolet automatique, enjoy your best wine with the spaghetti-western ballad Le vent, mourn your sentimental disappointment of the moment, singing with your friends Gli amanti tristi, and finally listen to the touching anthem Cuore nero, feeling shrivels running down your spine.
Don't expect a clean and remastered production from these songs, on the contrary, the sound is spontaneous, dirty and sharp-edged as never before. It's also very interesting to experience Ain Soph's original singer Crucifige at his best, especially on the dramatic Cuore nero and Le vent.
Prima dell'aurora is still the best lo-fi Italian folk album, even more savage in this new unpolished version.

via Filth Forge

[warning! explicit fascist content]

Ain Soph - White guard

Tracklist:

a1. Le depart
a2. Uomini perduti
a3. White guard
a4. Ramayana
a5. Tempi duri

b1. Le vent
b2. Pistolet automatique
b3. Gli amanti tristi
b4. Cuore nero

Hau Ruck! SPQR
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Minor Threat/Negazione - Live (tape bootleg) #1985

Split tape, bootleg no doubt of a live recording (29 April 1982) by Minor Threat in the USA and Negazione in Amersfoort, The Netherlands on May 4th 1985. Unindexed.

via & thanx to no longer forgotten music

Tracklist:

a1. MINOR THREAT side
(A litte friend/In my eyes/Stand up/Seeing red/Small man big mouth/Straight edge/12XU/No reason/Filler/Minor threat/Screaming at a wall/Out of step/Steppin' stone)

b1. NEGAZIONE side
(Tutto dentro/Noi/La mia mente/Cannibale/Ancora qui/Transistor/Metodi di giudizio/Sogni e bisogni-Niente/Troppo debole/Maschere-Chiuso/Omicida-Tutti pazzi)

Deformed Tapes
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Cätärro - Insônia (7") #2013

Banda de powerviolence formada em meados de 2003, com influência da escola de thrashcore e powerviolence americano dos anos 90. Tomando como referência principal as bandas de Vila Velha, como o JÄZZUS, AJUDANTI DI PAPAI NOEL, CHUCK NORRIS, MERDA e etc.

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Cätärro - Velho demais

Tracklist:

a1. Surfando para a morte
a2. Depois das férias
a3. Maçã mecânica
a4. Fome animal
a5. Bomba relógio
a6. Robô
a7. Eterno retorno
a8. Ainda vive

b1. Insônia
b2. A vida é dura
b3. Velho demais
b4. Morte de pulso
b5. Animais morrem

Capitão Lixo/Zuada/Läyä records
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Allison Run - Allison Run (12") #1988

Gli Allison Run sono il tipico esempio di band nata grazie all’Università, anzi al DAMS. Era il 1984 quando Amerigo Verardi (voce, chitarra) decise di trovare altri musicisti per dare corpo ad una band. Alla chiamata rispose Umberto Palazzo (basso), Cosimo Vitali (meglio conosciuto come Mimo Rash, batteria) e Alex Saviozzi (chitarra, tastiere). Il primo demo-tape, Lost in a circle, mise subito in chiaro su quali coordinate sonore si volevano muovere gli Allison Run, la psichedelia. La band fu ben presto contattata dalla Mantra records di Roma, che pubblicò il primo singolo, All those cats in the kitchen, sottoforma di 12 pollici. Il gruppo divenne la punta di diamante della scena lisergica italiana. Un brano del combo entrò di diritto nella compilation Eighties colour vol. 2 e la band diventò un quintetto con l’arrivo di Sado Sabetta (tastiere, mandolino). Le gesta del gruppo arrivarono così alle orecchie della Vox Pop di Milano, etichetta che sul finire degli anni ottanta pubblicò molti dischi alquanto interessanti. Il secondo singolo, Allison run (1988), conteneva tre pezzi e portò il gruppo a partecipare ad un’altra compilation allegata alla rivista Vinile. Si trattava di un'anticipazione dell’imminente primo album.

da BoGround Archives

Allison Run - Sado, Goodman & Faith

Tracklist:

a1. Flyer in "Frac"
a2. My First Luminous Birthday

b1. Sado, Goodman & Faith

Vox Pop
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VV.AA. - 4 per Ⓐ//ⒶⒶ per tutti (7") #1984

Like most compilations, a little spotty. Raw Power starts off and blows away all the competition. Their sound here is sooooo much better than their first LP, as they showcase their breakneck stop-and-start sound with vocals literally spit out through your speakers. Rappresaglia and Pedago Party both go for a more popular thrash sound. The other band, Rivolta Dell'Odio, has a slower art-damaged sound.

Dogtowne (from Maximum Rocknroll #22, February 1985)

Tracklist:

a1. RAW POWER - Fuck authority
a2. RAW POWER - Burning the factory
a3. RIVOLTA DELL'ODIO - La danza del sangue

b1. RAPPRESAGLIA - U.S.A.
b2. RAPPRESAGLIA - Rappresaglia
b3. PEDAGO PARTY - Lo spazio che ci resta
b4. PEDAGO PARTY - Morire a Beirut

Totò Alle Prese Coi Dischi
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Luciano Berio/Bruno Maderna - Acousmatrix 7 (reissue) #2004

Acousmatrix 7: Berio/Maderna is the seventh installment in a series of discs from the Dutch label BVHaast that is canvassing the output of the pioneering European electronic music studios, such as the ORTF in Paris, the WDR studio in Cologne, and, in this case, the RAI Studio di Fonologia in Milan. It contains several of the key electronic pieces produced at this facility in the late '50s and early '60s by two early masters of the genre, Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna.
Fans of John Cage's early electronic masterwork Fontana Mix, created at the Studio di Fonologia in 1958, may be surprised to find Berio drawing from the same pool of taped sources as Cage in his work Momenti (1960). This is its first appearance on CD, whereas it is the second for both Thema - Omaggio a Joyce (1958) and Visage (1962). Yet it is not particularly easy to find RCA's Berio album Many more voices, which is out of print, containing both of these pieces. Thema - Omaggio a Joyce (1958) and Visage (1962) are famous milestones within the history of electronic music and feature the irreplaceable artistry of Berio's then-wife, soprano Cathy Berberian.
Maderna's electronic music is generally not well known outside of Europe, and the appearance here of Le rire (1962) and Invenzione su una voce (also known as Dimensioni II) (1960) is most welcome. Whereas in Cage's electronic music, where one laughs but the composer doesn't seem to get the joke, Maderna revels in outwardly ridiculous, fragmented sounds, clearly choosing and combining what pleases him personally without the slightest recourse to apparent structural procedures. The "una voce" is once again Berberian, utilizing an unusual text source, the notorious Letteristic book by Hans G. Helms Fa:m'Ahnewgwow published in 1959 and entirely made up of word fragments devoid of "sense" or story. The sound on this BVHaast disc is great, as through some miracle they have transferred the vintage and artifactual tapes to disc without the slightest hint of tape hiss. Contrary to the notes, both Le rire and Invenzione su una voce have appeared on CD before, in an Italian collection of Maderna's electronic music on the Stradivarius label. Yet as with Many more voices, who can actually find a copy of it? By any measure, Acousmatrix 7: Berio/Maderna is an excellent option for these key early electronic works.

da AllMusic

Tracklist:

01. LUCIANO BERIO - Momenti
02. LUCIANO BERIO - Thema - Omaggio a Joyce
03. LUCIANO BERIO - Visage
04. BRUNO MADERNA - Le rire
05. BRUNO MADERNA - Invenzione su una voce

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Laghetto - Laghetto (promo) #2002

I Laghetto spaccano il culo. Basta ascoltare l'attacco del primo pezzo (Zucca)² per capire subito con cosa avete a che fare. Vi ricordate la potenza dei REFUSED? Vi ricordate la ferocia degli UNSANE? Vi ricordate gli stacconi degli SNAPCASE? Bene il trio bolognese non ha nulla da invidiare a tutte queste band di culto. I cinque pezzi presenti in questo promo (registrato benissimo) sono letteralmente delle bombe, dei concentrati di focalizzata violenza. La capacità del trio di utilizzare in maniera funzionale e divertente la lingua italiana (la canzone Uomo pera è già storia della musica per me) è sorprendente. Le impennate hardcore, gli "stop & go" del miglior noise americano, i deliranti e coloratissimi testi fanno di questa band, una delle più originali e divertenti che abbiamo in Italia. Sentitevi pure in colpa di non conoscerli.

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Laghetto - Ross

Tracklist:

01. (Zucca)²
02. Ross
03. La Sacrasindrome della Muccamoca (very pop song)
04. Squilibrio reificato
05. Uomo pera

Donnabavosa
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